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J. J. FERRET?! PAPER MATCH MAKING MACHINE Filed July 1924 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Hm-Ha fi m TNvENTR 7/ 61; ATTORNEY NM. 2 192a. 1,605,336

J. J. FERRETT! PAPER MATCH MAKING MACHINE Filed July 2, 1924 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Imevufor;

Nova 2 1926.

. L6533$ J. J. FERRETTI' PAPER MATCH MAKING MACHINE 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed July 2, 1924 Nov. 2 1926. 1,6fi5336 J. J. FERRETT! PAPER MATCH MAKING MACHINE Filed July 1924 5 Sheets-sheet 4 Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS J. FERRETTI, OFNEW YORK, N. Y. ASSIGN OR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

THE UNIVERSAL MATCH CORPORATION,

or MISSOURI.

Application filed July 2,

This invention relates to machine v for making paper matches of the type ordinarily used for advertising purposes and which consists ofa plurality of pasteboard-match strips joined together at one end in leaves which are usually bound together to form small books adapted to be carried in the vest pocket.

Thepresent invention contemplates machinery for automatically producing the leaves of attached match strips ready to be bound in the usual book covers. It is the object of this invention, consequently, to pro- I vide simplified and improved mechanism for producing such leaves for match books from a roll of suitable paper or pastebo'ard, said machinery being capable of automatically cutting said roll at intervalslongitudinally books may be" subsequently accomplished in any suitable manner. r The invention Wlll befirst hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of this s ecification, and then more specifically de ned in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of the front and rear end portions of a match 4 making machine constructed-jsubstantially in accordance with this invention, intermediate parts of said machine being broken away.

Figure 2 is a broken plan vi-ewof the front a Figure 3 is a sideele'vation of the front end of the machine showing more particularly the driving pulley and its associated gears for operating the cutting, shaping and feeding rollers.

portion of the machine as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 4' is a detailed sectional view of a portion of one of the shearing or longitudinally cutting rolls showing more clearly one which it is fed OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION IAPER-MATCI-I-MAKIN G MACHINE.

1924. Serial No. 723,691.

of the spring pressed the perforations to receive the binding wires in the leaves of the match book.

Figure 5 is a detailed perspective view of one of the transverse swinging members having. pins for engaging said binding perfora tions in order to carry said leaves through the paraffine and ignition substanceapplying apparatus.

Figure 6 is a longitudinal vertical section through the paraffin applying portion of the machine.

Figure 7 is a plan view of the same. Figure 8 is a longitudinal vertical section of the portion of the machine for applying the ignition substance to thetips of the match strips.

Figure 9 is a plan view of the latter with punches for forming I the .conveyo'rfor the match leaves omitted I for the sake of clearness.

Figure 10 is a detailed view of one of the completed leaves. for a paper match book such as the present machine is capable of producing.

Figure 11 is a diagrammatic plan view ofa portion of a strip of paper or pasteboard indicated in broken lines the manner in cut by the machine and subsequently to separate the prepared match book leaves into narrower section if desired, and Figure12 is a perspective view of a match book of the kind in which the match leaves made by the present machine are bound.

The match making machine, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, is designed to have a strip of paper or pasteboard indicated by the broken line 1 in Figure 1 fed "in at the lefthand end of said machine, as

illustrated in said figure, and said strip of paper 1 is fed continuously through the various devices which operate thereon until discharged at the right hand end' of the apparatus illustrated in Figures 8 and 9, it being understood that the portion of the machine shown in Figures 6 and 7 is arranged between that shown in Figures 1 and 2 and that illustrated in Figures 8 and 9, and that in operation the match leaves are automatically and continuously from one section of the machine to another until discharged in completed condition.

.At the extreme left hand end of the machine a pair of superimposed shearing cylinders 2 and3 are suitably journaled in a I the cylinder also suitably journaled on the frame 1. The

frame 4. The lower shearing cylinder 3 has a series of. parallel annular grooves 5 formed therein, while the upper 'shearing cylinder 20 has a plurality of sets of interrupted annular cutting blades 6 formed thereon and adapted to work in the grooves 5 in the cylinder 3 for cutting or shearing the paper strip 1 longitudinally at intervals for forming the individual matches or match blanks 7. As herein shown, the cylinder 2 has three ting knives 6 formed thereon with spaces 8 extending longitudinally on the surface of between said sets of knives. These spaces 8 on the cylinder tube leave transverse portions on the paper strip 1 uncut after passing between the cylinders 2 and 3, and these uncut transverse portions 9 constitute the binding portions or ends of the match book leaves.

Projecting from each of the spaces 8 between the sets of cutting knives 6 on the cylinder 2 pressed punches 10, best shown in-Figure 1. These punches are designed to perforate the uncut transverse portions 9 of the paper strip 1, said transverse portions 9 constituting'the individual match book leaves, thus forming holes therein, which may be utilized for the passage of the bindingwires 11, Figure 12, which serve to hold the match leaves in the books.

After passing between the cylinders 2 and 3, the paper stripl passes between another pair of superimposed cylinders 12 and 13 upper one of these cylinders 12 carries longitudinally arranged knives 14: adapted to co operate with the surface of the lower cylin der 13 for 'cuttingpthe versely at suitable. intervals according to the length ofgnatch leaf it is desired to make.

From the cylinders 12 and 13, thepaper strip 1 passes between a pair of superimposed shaping cylinders 15 and 16 each havf 17 spaced to engage alternate ones of the individual notches 7 of the" ing radial pins book leaves forseparating them or pressing them alternately up and down, as shown in vFigure 1. This shaping of the individual notches or match blanks 7 is for the purpose of se arating their free ends so that they may e properly coated with parafiine and dipped in ignition material during, later operations of the machine. I a

The pairs of cylinders 2 and 3, 12 and 13, and 15 and 16, are suitably driven by gearing from a pulley 18, Figures 2 and 3, which may be driven by a belt 19 from any suitable source of power. The other operating portions of the machine may be driven by pulleys and belts or sprocket wheels and sprocket chains from the same or any other source of power as may be preferred. In Figures 6 and 7, the apparatus for coating sets of shearing or cut- -there are two" or moresprmg gearing.

paper strip 1 transv transverse strips or the match blanks with parafiine is shown driven by a'sprocket chain 20 engaging over a sprocket wheel 21 on a shaft. 22 at the left hand end of this part of the machine, while the apparatus for applying-the ignition material to the tips ofthe match blanks is driven by a sprocket chain 23-eXtending fronra sprocket 24 on a shaft 25 -at the right hand end of'the parafiine applying section of the machine illustrated in Figures 6 and 7, to a sprocket 26 on a shaft 27 at the left hand end of the ignition material applying apparatus shown in Figures 8 and 9.

After the paper strip 1 has been cut longitudinally to form the individual match blanks, and transversely to form the book leaves, and said match spaced apart as shown in Figure 1 by the shaping rollers 15 and- 16, said leaves are fed over a belt 28 and delivered to an endless carrier 29 which conveys said leaves through the'remainin operating parts of the machine. Said be t 28 may be driven from the pulley 18 by any suitable form of The conveyor 29 comprises sprocket wheels 30 and sprocket chains 31 mounted thereont While both sprocket wheels 30 are shown in Figure 1, it will be understood that the right hand' one is located at the extreme right hand end of the machine and that the breaks in the sprocket chains 31 and the supporting frame for the sprocket wheels are to indicate that the paraffine coating and ignition material applying parts of the machine, which are separably illustrated in Figures 6 and 7, and 8 and. 9, respectively, are interposed between'said sprocket wheels 30 as shown in .Fi ure 1.

he spiocket chains 31 of the conveyor 29 carry at equally spaced intervals swinging members 32 being pivotjally" supported by trunnions' 33 projecting entrally from their ends and loosely engagingfin suitable bearing 34 formed in certain of the links of'ther chains 31. These swing- :ing; members 32rihave projecting 7 pins 35 adapted tyfsictionally engage the binding perforations for d rby the spring punches '10 'on the cylinder whereby the book leaves consisting of an uncut transverse portion 9 of the paper strip and aftransverse series of matchiblanks 7 attached thereto, may be sup ported and conveyed by the sprocket chains 31 through the parafiin applying and igniblanks have been tion material tipping apparatus of the machine. The pins 35 on the swinging members 32 are engaged with the binding perforations formed in the uncut transverse portions 9 of the book leaves by means of collars 36 adapted to rotate freely with a transverse shaft 37 supported above the sprocket wheel 30 at the left-hand end of the carrier 29, said collar 36 being spaced just far enough above the swinging members 32 as they pass below the shaped or spread apart match blanks 7 depending from the upper bight of the sprocket chains 31, in which position they are conveyedthrough the remaining parts of the machine.

Referring to Figures 6 and 7 of the draw-- ings; 38 indicates a tank for holding liquid paraffine, and 39 is an endless carrier mounted on an incline and having a series of buckets or transverse troughs 40 adapted to dip into the parafiine and raise suilicient thereof to coat the match blanks of each book leaf as it passes oversaid tank 38. It will be understood, of course, that the timing of the movement of the buckets 40 and the passage of the book leaves depending from the carrier 29 over the tank 38 is such as to insure the registering-of -a bucket full of paraiiine as it is raised from the tank with the depending and spaced apart match blanks of each book leaf. The left hand end of the carrier for the buckets 40 is arranged somewhat higher than the right hand end thereof, so .that as the conveyor 29 passes over the tank 38 from left to right in F igures 6 and 7, the buckets gradually drop away from 5 around the match blanks 7 so that by the time the latter reach the right hand end of the tank 38 they 'areentirely free from said buckets, the latter being then dropped again into said tank for a fresh supply of parafline. To insure the retention of the book leaves on the pins 85 of .the swinging members 82 of the conveyor 29,

' an endless belt or chain 41 may be mounted above said conveyor 29' and be provided with projecting arms 42 to bear againstsaid book leaves adjacent the points where they are engaged by said pins 35, as best shown in Figs ure (3. This belt or chain 41 carrying the bearing arms 42 preferably extends over the parafline tank 38 and also over the ignition material tank 43 illustrated in Figures 8 and 9, although said belt is omitted in the latter figure for the sake of clearness.

The tank 43 for the ignition material is preferably provided with a hot water jacket 44 whereby said ignition material may always be kept in a sufficient fluid state to be handled for coating the tips of the match.

blanks 7 of the book leaves. An endless conveyor 45 carrying pivoted buckets 46 dips into, the tank 43 and raises sufficient quantities of the ignition material in each bucket to coat the tips of the match blanks of each book leaf. At the left hand end of the tank 43, the conveyor 45 passes around a sprocket wheel 47 which serves to raise the bucket 46 out of the tank and to a level slightly below the tips of the match blanks as they travel over the tank on the conveyor 29. As the buckets 46 reach the top of the sprocket wheels 47 they passbelow a fixed transverse strip 48 which levels'off the ignition material in the bucket, it being understood that said ignition'material is of a rather thick plastic consistency which is apt to cause itto become heaped up in the center of the buckets which might result in a greater quantity than nec- ,essary being applied to the tips of the match-blanks. .As the buckets advance from the left hand sprocket wheel 47 the conveyor 45 rises by reason of its passing over rollers 49 mounted on a slightly high level, in order to bring the buckets 46 up to a position where the tips of the match blanks 7 will dip therein, seeFigure 8. Said tips of the mat-l h blanks remain in the buckets until both reach the right hand end of the tank 43 when said buckets drop again into said tank, and said match blanks are carried by the conveyor 29 beyond the tank to any suitable point of discharge. v

Space is preferably provided between the parafiine tank and the ignition tank for the purpose of cooling (.the coating of paraifine on the match blanks before the tips thereof are dipped in the ignition material. This cooling may be accomplished by forcing a current of cold air on the match blanks for a time determined by the distance traveled between said tanks.

I. claim 1. In a paper match making machine, the

transverse swinging members mounted at intervals on said conveyor and having PL'OJQCting pins thereon to engage the binding perforations in the stubs of match book leaves for supporting the latter on said conveyor with their match blanks in'depending posiing them away from the match blanks as the latter advance toward the far end of the tank. 1 I

'2. In a paper match making machine, the combination with an endless conveyor, of transverse swinging members mounted at intervals on said conveyor and having projecting pins thereon to engage the binding percombination with an endless conveyor, of

'forations in the stubs of match book leaves for supporting the latter on said conveyor withtheir match blanks in depending posi tion, a paratline tank arranged below said conveyor, a train of buckets adapted to dip into said tank and apply a suiiicient quantity of parafiine therefrom to coat the depending match blanks of each match book leaf as it i tank, and an endless belt arranged above the conveyor for. thematch" book leaves, said belt having projecting pinsadapted to engage the stubs of said leaves and hold them in engagement with the pins on the swinging 10 members of said eonveyor during the paratfine coating operation.

3. In a paper matchmaking machinegthe combination with an endless conveyor, of

transverse swinging members mounted at intervals on said conveyor, means on said members to engage in the stubs of match book leaves for supporting the latter on said conveyor with their match blanks in depending position, a tank for ignition material over which the conveyor passes, and a train of individual buckets one for each book for raising a sufiicient quantity of ignition material from said tank and applying the same to the tips of said match blanks during their passage over the tank} l. In a paper match making machine, the combination with an endless conveyor, of transverse swinging members mounted at in tervals on said conveyor and having projecting pins thereon to engage the binding performations in the stubs of match book leaves for supporting the latter on said conveyor with their match blanks in depending position, a tank for ignition material having a hot water jacket around the same for the purpose specified over which the conveyor passes, and a train of buckets for raising a sufiicient quantity of ignition material from said tank and applying the same to the tips 40 or" said match blanks during their passage over the tank, and means for levelling off each bucket before the dipping operation for the purpose specified.

5. In a paper .match' making machine, the

combination with an endless conveyor, of

transverse swinging members mounted at intervals on said conveyor, and having'projecting pins thereon to engage the binding perforations inthe stubs of matchbook leaves for supporting the latter on said conveyor with their match blanks in depending position, a tank for ignition material having a hot water jacket around -the'.same' for the purpose specified over which the conveyor passes, a train of buckets for raising a suflicient quantity of ignition material from said tank and applying the-same to the tips of said match blanks during their passage over the tank, a belt arranged above the conveyor for the match bookleaves, and projecting I leaves, thecombmation, with a continuouspins on said belt to engage the stub of said leaves for holding'them in engagement with the pins on the swinging membersof said conveyor during their passage over the tank. 6. In a paper match making, machine, the

combination f'with an endless conveyor, of transverse swinging members mounted at intervals on said conveyor and having projecting pins thereon to engage the binding perforations in the stubs of match book leaves for supporting the latter on said conveyor with their match blanks in depending position, a 'paraffine tank arranged below said conveyor, a train of buckets adapted to dip into said tank and apply a suflicient quantity V of parafiine therefrom to coat the depending match blanks of each match book leafas it passes overthe tank, atank for holding ignition material and having a hot water jacket arranged behind said parafiine tank and over which the conveyor for the match book leaves passes, a train of buckets for raising sutficient quantities of said ignition material from said tank to coat the tips of the match blanks of said leaves as the latter pass over the tank, a belt arranged above both the parafline and ignition material tanks, and projecting pins on said belt adapted to engage the stubs of said match book leaves and retain them in engagement with the pins on the swinging members of the conveyor for said leaves during the passage of the latter overboth tanks.

71 In a paper match making machine, the eombinationwith an endless conveyor, of means on said conveyor for supporting match book leaves by tlieir stubs and with their match blanks in depending position, said conveyor extending over said tank, a trainof buckets separate from each other 1 and mounted on an endless conveyor having its lower bight arranged in the tank and its upper bi ht arranged above said tank, each of said buckets being adapted to register with one of the match book leaves as the latter pass over the tank for coating the tips of the match blanks with said ignition materiahmeans for levelling ofi' each bucket prior to the clipping of the tips of the match blanks of the corresponding leaf into the same, and an. idler roller for the bucket conveyor arranged in advance of the levelling device for causing the buckets to rise into position to have the tips of the match blanks dipped therein. I

8.In a match makingmachine, a conveyor' for match books, means on said conveyorfor supporting a match book in depending osition, a traveling bucket beneath sai conveyoreto receive the lower end of said book, a traveler overlying said convey'or, and a linger. on said traveler for engaging said book and holding the same on said conveyor.

9. In a machine for making match-book strip of material and transferring the leaves to the said holders without interrupting the continuity of movement of the said conveyor.

10. In a machine for making match-book leaves, the combination-with a continuouslythat of the said conveyor," whereby the leaves are received on the said conveyor without interrupting the continuity ofits movement.

11. In a machine for making match-book leaves, the combination with a continuously moving conveyor bearing a series of matchbook leaf holders, of means for forming the said leaves and transferring them successively to respective leaf holders, the whole being I so organized that the said leaves during the transferring operation move substantially in the same direction and at the same speed as that of the said holders, whereby the leaves are received on the said holders without interrupting the continuity of the movement of the conveyor.

12. In a machine for making match-book leaves, the combination with a continuously moving conveyor, of means for operating upon a continuously moving strip of leaf material to form match-book leaves and for transferring the said leaves to, the said conveyor, the whole being so organized that the said leaves during the transferring operation move substantially in the same direction and at the same speed as that of the said conveyor, whereby theleaves are received on the said conveyor without interrupting its continuity of movement.

13. In a machine for making match-book leaves, thecombination with a continuously moving conveyor, of means presenting cutting edges adapted to cut a continuously advancing strip of leaf material to form match leaves each having a'stub portion and a plurality of match blanks projecting therefrom. of a pair of rotating elements disposed on opposite sides of and with their axes arranged transversely of said leaves and each having a longitudinal series of" pins projecting substantially radially therefrom to engage alternate match blanks of said leaves as the latter pass between said elements for spreading the free ends of-the said match blanks alternately inopposite directions, the said pins also functioning to continue the advance of the leaves toward and in the direction of movement of the said conveyor after the said' leaves have been completely severed from the advancing strip of card material. I

14. In a machine for making match-book leaves, the combinatiomwith a continuously moving conveyor, of a pair of co-operating continously rotating I cylinders adapted to draw in a strip of leaf niaterial and presenting a longitudinal series of annular cutting edges co-operatingtogether during a part of a revolution to out said striplongitudinah ly at intervals to form a longitudinal series of transverse rows of longitudinally extending match blanks, a continuously rotating cutter head having its axis and a cutting edge arranged transversely to the said strip so as to cut the continuously moving' strip transversely at intervals in linewith one end of each of the groups of match blanks for'forming match book leaves, and continuously moving means for spreading alternate na'tclrblanks apart so as to separate their free ends and forsimultaneously advancing the completely severed leaves from the said cutter-head and presenting them to the said conveyor in predetermined positions thereon.

'15. In amachine for making match-book leaves, the combination, with a conveyor having pins thereon for holding match-book leaves, of means for forming match-book leaves and perforating them to provide open ings for the said pins and subsequently transferring them to the said conveyor in prede- .ing pins thereon for holding match-book leaves, of means for forming match-book leaves and perforating them to provide openings for' the said pins, and means for-spreading apart the free 'ends of the match blanks of said leaves and transferring the said leaves t-o' the said conveyor in predetermined positions thereon so that the said pins are engaged by the said openings.

18. In a marhine for making match-book leavesfthe combination with a conveyor hav ing pins thereon for holding match-book leaves, of means for forming match-book leaves and perforating them to provide openings for the said pinsand for placing the said leaves on thesaid conveyor so that the said openings register with the said pins, and means for pressing the said leaves down upon the pins with which their openings register.

19. In a match making machine, the combination of a paraffin holder and a conveyor adapted to carry match blanks in depending position and dip' the same into the said holder, the organization being such that the blanks, immediately after being dipped in the said holder, are Withdrawn gradually and uniformly therefrom as the conveyor advances.

20. In a match making machine, the combination of a paraffin tank, a plurality of buckets adapted individually to travel in succession in an endless path through said tankand ris'e therefrom and then pass down a gradual incline, and a conveyor adapted to advance horizontally with and over the buckets on the said inclineand to carry match blanks in dependin position and in registration with the said uckets, whereby the lower ends of the blanks are dipped in- ;the buckets at the head of the incline and are gradually and uniformly withdrawn thererom as the conveyor and buckets advance. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

v JULIUS J. FERRETTI. 

